Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

December 09, 2005

Danbury Mayor: Deal With Illegals

Mark Boughton, mayor of Danbury, Connecticut, is forming a coalition of mayors from throughout the country that will lobby federal lawmakers to overhaul and reform immigration laws.

It's a good idea. Of course, during yesterday's press conference, some idjit reporter had to ask:

"Mayor Boughton, are you anti-immigrant?"

Boughton paused for a moment, smiled – and then said no.

Why is it that wanting immigration reform--in order to keep illegal immigrants from entering the country--automatically makes one anti-immigrant? We have laws, and these people are flat out ignoring them.

This other piece from the article was hurl-worthy as well:

However, [Stamford Mayor Dan] Malloy said the economy would go into the tank if every undocumented worker left the U.S. Immigrant laborers fill many landscaping and construction jobs American workers don't want.

Wages for these very jobs are kept low because of the influx of illegals. Those who employ them know they are willing to work for very little and therefore the employers rake in more cash for themselves. (I'm a capitalist, but I'm not for making profit by exploiting illegals and cheating American citizens in the process.) By not employing illegals, wages for construction and landscaping jobs would reach more realistic levels, making those positions more attractive to Americans. Americans--most of them, anyway--want to work, but want to be paid fairly. (BTW, I am not a union supporter.)

In the meantime, illegals pay no taxes yet receive taxpayer-funded frills such as education and hospital treatment for illness.

This doesn't even take into consideration the security issues surrounding illegals' ability to just waltz over our southern borders.

I'll be keeping an eye on this coaltion. It'll be interesting to see if it actually gets anywhere.